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When Daring Fireball’s John Gruber sat down with Apple software engineering chief Craig Federighi, hardware engineering chief John Ternus, AR/VR chief Mike Rockwell and marketing chief Greg Joswak to discuss the announcements at WWDC 2023, Mac Pro 2023 An interesting headline came up. ,
MacRumors Noted that John Termas explained why Apple has no plans to include support for external GPUs or video cards.
“Fundamentally, we’ve built our architecture around this shared memory model and that optimization, and so it’s not entirely clear to me how you’re going to bring in another GPU and do something that’s optimized for our system.” is,” Turnus told Gruber. “This is not a direction we wanted to pursue.”
In other words, don’t expect support for GPUs on Apple silicon for the foreseeable future, likely troubling anyone planning to use Nvidia cards and CUDA for ML (Machine Learning) training for example. Is. It’s not hard to see Apple’s hidden effort to slowly phase out the Mac Pro, pushing it into planned obsolescence, the same path not long ago taken by the Xserve, Apple’s dedicated server range.
as I mentioned in my Recent Mac Pro OpinionsHe proudly gave up his $2,000 Accelerator card when Apple announced Now every Mac Pro features seven Afterburner cards, not just one, Why would you buy $14,000 worth of hardware when a $3,999 workstation can do the same thing? (Ed: One thing for sure is that Mac Studio has the potential to be one of the best workstations out there)
what about memory?
Neither Termus nor anyone in attendance on June 7 talked about the other big restriction facing Mac Pro users; Maximum amount of shared, non-upgradeable memory of 192GB. This is a fraction of what the previous generation (1.5TB) Mac Pro offered and something that will impress current Mac Pro users. When we asked popular Mac software developer, Affinity, whether 192GB would be an issue for their applications (creative tools), they said it wouldn’t be.
192GB should be more than enough when working in apps 👍June 9, 2023
Although as a business, Apple is catering to the majority of users and only a vocal minority will point out the shortcomings of its new offerings. Its hardware platform is increasingly moving away from the traditional setup of what desktop PCs look like; Integrated, mobile-first compute moves forward with anything with a hint of modularity thrown out the window. It’s not that Apple was bashful about it; This 2020 WWDC Videos It made clear that this was going to be the future “Making everything in one chip gives the system a unified memory architecture”.
A combination of integrated everything and ownership of the software stack gives Apple an inherent advantage both in terms of deployment, full performance and value for money that no one else will be able to match.
